Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
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Bible References
General references
Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says Yahweh, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Jeremiah 3:1
"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.
Matthew 1:19
Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
Matthew 5:31
"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'
Matthew 19:7
They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"